Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not.

When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic.

Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick.

I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection.

Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll.

If it's your week to pick, remember to keep it under $3.99.

Naturally, this new system is new and it may be necessary to make changes as we go.

Since no one has 5 reviews under their belt, a poll will go up later this week to determine next week's reading.

Review as often or as little as you like. Once you've posted 5 reviews, you will be awarded 1 pick. You can post 5 reviews, right? That's a totally achievable goal and with day and date digital releases becoming the standard, it shouldn't matter if your shop ordered enough copies of this weeks comic or not.

When multiple Review Groupers have posted 5 (or more) qualifying reviews, they will be awarded their pick in the order that they qualified. What constitutes a qualifying review? Any review posted (with a score on a scale from 0-10, that's right 0!) within 1 calendar month of the thread going live. Reviews are to be at least 5 sentences long. It shows that a) you have at least read this week's pick and b) you have some unique insight into the comic.

Reviews posted while waiting in line for your pick will be applied to your next pick.

I'll be keeping track of everyone's progress with the newly christened Spreadsheet of Fantastic (RIP, Spreadsheet of Doom) and reporting the results in the Current Members list in the weekly OP. When it's your turn to make a pick, I will PM you. If you do not respond to me by Midnight EST the following Sunday, you will lose your pick and I will start a poll to determine that week's selection.

Any week in which we do not have a Review Grouper with 5 qualifying picks, we will determine the week's comic via poll.

If it's your week to pick, remember to keep it under $3.99.

Naturally, this new system is new and it may be necessary to make changes as we go.

Since no one has 5 reviews under their belt, a poll will go up later this week to determine next week's reading.

OMCTO

Is this comic 24 pages, or 240? It's so dense compared to modern mainstream comics, it's hard to tell. In this story we get some backstory on Duncan in eleven pages. With the power to read the thoughts of everyone in a fifteen mile radius, he's effectively able to predict the immediate future. While this has its tactical advantages, it obviously leaves Duncan bored and unfulfilled. The story pans back to the larger narrative of Mind MGMT for the second half of the book, as protagonist Meru and her companions Henry Lyme and Perrier come up with a clever way to pin Duncan down and attempt to recruit him for their struggle against The Eraser, who is eliminating former Mind MGMT agents one by one. And that doesn't even take into account the page margins, which are filled for the first half with the thoughts Duncan picks up around him, and the second half with another installment from Meru's book, Premeditated: A True Crime Novel. Oh, and then a two page backup story about The Hulk, and a letters page. Wow!

To be honest, I don't even feel qualified to review this book. I've read all the issues of this series and enjoy it immensely, but it's such a dense and complex work that I probably can't do it justice. But don't get the impression that because it's smart, it's dull. Mind MGMT has action and mystery in spades. It has all the best elements of a spy thriller, and, oh yeah, sci-fi mind powers besides. Your eyes are glued to the page when you're reading this, and then they're glued again as you read it again to look at all the marginalia and bonus material. At least that's how I do it. Trying to follow the sidebars and the main story at the same time is a path to madness.

When Matt Kindt set out to create this monthly book, he said (paraphrased) that he wanted to create a monthly comic that would make people want to read monthly comics again. And he knocks that goal out of the park. Every single issue of Mind MGMT would take up 5 issues and $5.99 special if it were a mainstream comic. By the time you waited a month for the next story fraction, you'd have lost interest. Not Mind MGMT though. Here, you get your money's worth. But amazingly, despite the intense, post-coital satisfaction experienced after pouring through an issue of Mind MGMT, you're also left pining for more. It's that damn good.

I don't know how Matt Kindt finds the time to create an issue of this comic every month, but I'm glad he does. He's incredible. This book is incredible. If you're not reading it, you should be. It might be possible to jump in here, but your best bet is to drop whatever you're doing, head to your comic shop, and buy all the back issues. You won't regret it.

OMCTO

Is this comic 24 pages, or 240? It's so dense compared to modern mainstream comics, it's hard to tell. In this story we get some backstory on Duncan in eleven pages. With the power to read the thoughts of everyone in a fifteen mile radius, he's effectively able to predict the immediate future. While this has its tactical advantages, it obviously leaves Duncan bored and unfulfilled. The story pans back to the larger narrative of Mind MGMT for the second half of the book, as protagonist Meru and her companions Henry Lyme and Perrier come up with a clever way to pin Duncan down and attempt to recruit him for their struggle against The Eraser, who is eliminating former Mind MGMT agents one by one. And that doesn't even take into account the page margins, which are filled for the first half with the thoughts Duncan picks up around him, and the second half with another installment from Meru's book, Premeditated: A True Crime Novel. Oh, and then a two page backup story about The Hulk, and a letters page. Wow!

To be honest, I don't even feel qualified to review this book. I've read all the issues of this series and enjoy it immensely, but it's such a dense and complex work that I probably can't do it justice. But don't get the impression that because it's smart, it's dull. Mind MGMT has action and mystery in spades. It has all the best elements of a spy thriller, and, oh yeah, sci-fi mind powers besides. Your eyes are glued to the page when you're reading this, and then they're glued again as you read it again to look at all the marginalia and bonus material. At least that's how I do it. Trying to follow the sidebars and the main story at the same time is a path to madness.

When Matt Kindt set out to create this monthly book, he said (paraphrased) that he wanted to create a monthly comic that would make people want to read monthly comics again. And he knocks that goal out of the park. Every single issue of Mind MGMT would take up 5 issues and $5.99 special if it were a mainstream comic. By the time you waited a month for the next story fraction, you'd have lost interest. Not Mind MGMT though. Here, you get your money's worth. But amazingly, despite the intense, post-coital satisfaction experienced after pouring through an issue of Mind MGMT, you're also left pining for more. It's that damn good.

I don't know how Matt Kindt finds the time to create an issue of this comic every month, but I'm glad he does. He's incredible. This book is incredible. If you're not reading it, you should be. It might be possible to jump in here, but your best bet is to drop whatever you're doing, head to your comic shop, and buy all the back issues. You won't regret it.

Rain Partier

It's really amazing that Matt Kindt can put out a monthly book like this, story, art, lettering, etc. I really dig the watercolor washes and simple but expressive brushstrokes and lines he builds his panels with, almost vignette-style, fast and loose. I love the way he evokes Chicago in this issue, with the little subtle details like the Sun Times newspaper box or Ed Debevic's restaurant.

This issue brought Duncan on board finally, for now at least, and he's one of my favorites. When the book first came out, I was a little crushed because Duncan in particular by coincidence closely resembles a story I was working on but scrapped, even down to the psychic detective-noir flashback at the beginning of this latest issue, dang it! It puts my ideas completely to bed now, for sure.

I'm glad this book is getting the recognition it deserves lately, and I can at least take some small pride in being one of its earliest cheerleaders. I've been disappointed in comics shops being slow to come around though, it's one of the hardest books to find each month. With the recent hardcover collection and the Ridley Scott movie in pre-production, there's just no excuse for that.

Rain Partier

It's really amazing that Matt Kindt can put out a monthly book like this, story, art, lettering, etc. I really dig the watercolor washes and simple but expressive brushstrokes and lines he builds his panels with, almost vignette-style, fast and loose. I love the way he evokes Chicago in this issue, with the little subtle details like the Sun Times newspaper box or Ed Debevic's restaurant.

This issue brought Duncan on board finally, for now at least, and he's one of my favorites. When the book first came out, I was a little crushed because Duncan in particular by coincidence closely resembles a story I was working on but scrapped, even down to the psychic detective-noir flashback at the beginning of this latest issue, dang it! It puts my ideas completely to bed now, for sure.

I'm glad this book is getting the recognition it deserves lately, and I can at least take some small pride in being one of its earliest cheerleaders. I've been disappointed in comics shops being slow to come around though, it's one of the hardest books to find each month. With the recent hardcover collection and the Ridley Scott movie in pre-production, there's just no excuse for that.

OMCTO

Victorian Squid wrote:It's really amazing that Matt Kindt can put out a monthly book like this, story, art, lettering, etc. I really dig the watercolor washes and simple but expressive brushstrokes and lines he builds his panels with, almost vignette-style, fast and loose. I love the way he evokes Chicago in this issue, with the little subtle details like the Sun Times newspaper box or Ed Debevic's restaurant.

This issue brought Duncan on board finally, for now at least, and he's one of my favorites. When the book first came out, I was a little crushed because Duncan in particular by coincidence closely resembles a story I was working on but scrapped, even down to the psychic detective-noir flashback at the beginning of this latest issue, dang it! It puts my ideas completely to bed now, for sure.

I'm glad this book is getting the recognition it deserves lately, and I can at least take some small pride in being one of its earliest cheerleaders. I've been disappointed in comics shops being slow to come around though, it's one of the hardest books to find each month. With the recent hardcover collection and the Ridley Scott movie in pre-production, there's just no excuse for that.

It's a 10 like I said before, I must be psychic!

Luckily, digital aficionados should have no problem finding a copy at the Dark Horse Digital Comics store.

OMCTO

Victorian Squid wrote:It's really amazing that Matt Kindt can put out a monthly book like this, story, art, lettering, etc. I really dig the watercolor washes and simple but expressive brushstrokes and lines he builds his panels with, almost vignette-style, fast and loose. I love the way he evokes Chicago in this issue, with the little subtle details like the Sun Times newspaper box or Ed Debevic's restaurant.

This issue brought Duncan on board finally, for now at least, and he's one of my favorites. When the book first came out, I was a little crushed because Duncan in particular by coincidence closely resembles a story I was working on but scrapped, even down to the psychic detective-noir flashback at the beginning of this latest issue, dang it! It puts my ideas completely to bed now, for sure.

I'm glad this book is getting the recognition it deserves lately, and I can at least take some small pride in being one of its earliest cheerleaders. I've been disappointed in comics shops being slow to come around though, it's one of the hardest books to find each month. With the recent hardcover collection and the Ridley Scott movie in pre-production, there's just no excuse for that.

It's a 10 like I said before, I must be psychic!

Luckily, digital aficionados should have no problem finding a copy at the Dark Horse Digital Comics store.

Rain Partier

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:They probably do not. I'm just amazed the comic shop here in Pacifica actually HAS a back issue section. Before moving here, I hadn't seen one in a while.

Yeah, almost all the old stores with huge back issue stock died, I remember seeing them all go tits up in Chicago around the turn of the century.

Stupid century, turning to stupid shit like it did.

It should make you question why you're not seeking out other books like Mind MGMT, although you do claim to have read Wizzywig...so there's some progress there. You should read Matt Kindt's Black Widow story in the Strange Tales anthology, it's almost like a Mind MGMT prototype, believe it or not, framed similarly on the page like an agent's report sheet. And there are other gems in those anthologies that might make you want to read some other good comics for a change.

Rain Partier

S.F. Jude Terror wrote:They probably do not. I'm just amazed the comic shop here in Pacifica actually HAS a back issue section. Before moving here, I hadn't seen one in a while.

Yeah, almost all the old stores with huge back issue stock died, I remember seeing them all go tits up in Chicago around the turn of the century.

Stupid century, turning to stupid shit like it did.

It should make you question why you're not seeking out other books like Mind MGMT, although you do claim to have read Wizzywig...so there's some progress there. You should read Matt Kindt's Black Widow story in the Strange Tales anthology, it's almost like a Mind MGMT prototype, believe it or not, framed similarly on the page like an agent's report sheet. And there are other gems in those anthologies that might make you want to read some other good comics for a change.